Arnaud Bouxin is agronomist by education and graduated from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon. He started his carrier as policy advisor in the French Association of feed manufacturers, SNIA, in 1990 and joined FEFAC as Deputy Secretary General in 1998. He is busy primarily with feed legislation and the drafting of tools to support its implementation, for example the FEFAC Guide to Good Hygiene Practice for compound feed and premixture manufacturing (EFMC), or the Code of practice for compound feed labeling drafted in cooperation with Copa-Cogeca. He is also one of the coordinators of the EU Feed Chain Task Force gathering 41 EU organisations of the feed chain, which is taking care of the maintenance of the EU Catalogue and the Register of feed materials. He is 54 years old, married and has got two children.